Diane C. Vecchio's Books

Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

Italian Migrants in Urban America

By: Diane C. Vecchio

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Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

Italian Migrants in Urban America

By: Diane C. Vecchio

Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States Diane C. Vecchio's unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, during the turn of the twentieth century. Using Italian and American sources and rich oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that often included work experiences outside of the home, including jobs as midwives and businesswomen. Demonstrating the regional variation of Italian women's work as well as the skills they transplanted to America balances the image of inexperienced and low-skilled laborers that dominates scholarship on Italian working women. Vecchio's research on Endicott sheds light on the gendered nature of life in a "company town" governed by welfare paternalism, while her research on Milwaukee emphasizes how Italian immigrant women turned to small business enterprise when local opportunities for wage-earning were limited. This comparative method helps to move beyond reductionist theories and conventional portraits of Italian women to explore the diverse factors that prompted them to seek certain kinds of occupations to the exclusion of others.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252030397

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9780252030390

Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers

How Jewish Entrepreneurs Built Economy and Community in Upcountry South Carolina

By: Diane Catherine Vecchio

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How Jewish Entrepreneurs Built Economy and Community in Upcountry South Carolina

By: Diane Catherine Vecchio

A new perspective on Jewish history in the South Diane Catherine Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who settled in Upcountry (now called Upstate) South Carolina. Like other parts of the so-called New South, the Upcountry was a center of textile manufacturing and new business opportunities that drew entrepreneurial energy to the region. Working with a rich set of oral histories, memoirs, and traditional historical documents, Vecchio provides an important corrective to the history of manufacturing in South Carolina. She explores Jewish community development and describes how Jewish business leaders also became civic leaders and affected social, political, and cultural life. The Jewish community's impact on all facets of life across the Upcountry is vital to understanding the growth of today's Spartanburg–Greenville corridor.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643364537

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Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

Italian Migrants in Urban America

By: Diane C. Vecchio

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Italian Migrants in Urban America

By: Diane C. Vecchio

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University of Illinois Press

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0252030397

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9780252030390

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Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

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Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers

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